The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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